With two films about the Indonesian genocide, the Oscar-nominated ‘The Act of Killing’ and this month’s ‘The Look of Silence,’ director Joshua Oppenheimer — aided by an anonymous codirector — shines light on an unspeakable tragedy

In 2011, 12-year-old Garrett Phillips was killed in his upstate New York home. Years passed with no arrest, and now Nick Hillary, a former college soccer coach and an ex-boyfriend of Phillips’s mother, awaits trial on a murder charge. But Hillary and a vocal group of supporters say that he has been wrongfully accused.

Hallelujah! After weeks picking through the movie cupboards looking for anything good and finding only a stale box of Frosted ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ Hollywood coughed up a cornucopia of new releases this weekend.

Jalen and Jacoby tackle serious sports issues: Roger Goodell’s future as a commissioner, the controversy around the Atlanta Hawks, and LeBron James cheating at fantasy football. Listen to the podcast here. Subscribe to the Grantland Sports podcast network on iTunes here and the Grantland NFL Podcast here.

Also in the Afternoon Links: ‘Fargo’ showrunner and writer Noah Hawley is adapting his novel into a film, Angelina’s directing a poaching tale called ‘Africa,’ and a big ‘HIMYM’ mystery has been put to rest.

When’s the last time you remembering seeing a straight Tim Burton movie, one without magic or headless horsemen, without superheroes or macabre animation or spaceships or a general Seuss-on-acid vibe? Twenty years ago, probably: ‘Ed Wood’ was written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, a duo that went on to pen ‘Man on the Moon,’ ‘The People vs. Larry Flynt,’ and now Burton’s new one, ‘Big Eyes.’

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